I would like to second the recommendation of Ayn Rand’s anthology, The Virtue of Selfishness. In particular, I would like to encourage readers to pay very serious attention to the first essay, “The Objectivist Ethics.”

In a study group in Study Groups for Objectivists, participants discussed three pages per week. (The first half of the 12-week study group is complete, and the second half of the study group starts in a week or so.)

At that slow pace, I saw for the first time the great care with which Ayn Rand structured her paper. (If I recall correctly, she originally read the paper at a philosophical conference four decades ago.)

It deserves a very slow reading, serious note-taking, and discussion to bring out the many connections possible in her very concise essay.

Thank you for bringing up the subject.